Late in the Empire of Men - Couverture souple

Kempf, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935536877 ISBN 13 : 9781935536871

Editeur : Four Way Books, 2017

Synopsis

Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf's powerful debut collection, reads the author's coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a trajectory he simultaneously situates in the larger context of empire--both political and anthropocentric--by looking back to Rome and Carthage and by glancing forward to a time when, as he writes in the poem "Dominion," "the idea of people/is over." Employing a baroque layering of image and allusion, patterned sonic texturing, and post-narrative self-consciousness, Kempf reveals how commonplace rhetorical practices--football's valorization of a "warrior ethos," for example--work to conscript young American men, in particular, into patterns of thought and behavior constitutive of an imperialist state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CHRISTOPHER KEMPF has published poetry in Best New Poets, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, and Ploughshares, among other places. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he is the 2016-2017 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Chicago. He received his MFA from Cornell University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Four Way Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935536877
• ISBN 13: 9781935536871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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• Personne responsable: non disponible